go
verb
be abolished or discarded
- “These ugly billboards have to go!”
- “These luxuries all had to go under the Khmer Rouge”
go through in search of something; search through someone''s belongings in an unauthorized way
- “Who rifled through my desk drawers?”
- “The engine finally went”
- “The car died on the road”
- “The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town”
- “The coffee maker broke”
- “The engine failed on the way to town”
- “her eyesight went after the accident”
adjective
noun
Origin
From Middle English gon, goon, from Old English gān (“to go”), from Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną (“to go”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”). The inherited past tense form yode (compare Old English ēode) was replaced through suppletion in the 15th century by went, from Old English wendan (“to go, depart, wend”). cognates and related terms Cognate with Scots gae, gan, gang, ging, gyang (“to go”), Yola go, goe, goeth, gow (“to go”), West Frisian gean (“to go”), Alemannic German gaa, go (“to go, walk, step”), Bavarian geh (“to go”), Cimbrian ghéenan, gian (“to go”), Dutch gaan (“to go”), Dutch Low Saxon gan, gaon (“to go”), German gehen (“to go”), German Low German gahn (“to go”), Limburgish gaon, goëne (“to go”), Luxembourgish goen (“to go”), Vilamovian gejn, gyjn (“to go”), Yiddish גיין (geyn, “to go, walk”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish gå (“to go, walk”), Crimean Gothic geen (“to go”), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌰𐌽 (gaggan, “to go”). Compare also Albanian ngah (“to run, drive, go”), Ancient Greek κιχάνω (kikhánō, “to meet with, arrive at”), Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬰𐬁𐬨𐬌 (zazāmi), Sanskrit जहाति (jáhāti, “to shun, avoid, lay aside”).
Phrases
- absence makes the heart go yonder
- as you go
- Assad must go curse
- at a go
- at one go
- coming and going
- drive a nail where it will go
- enough to go around
- give it a go
- have a go
- make a go of it
- on the go
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